A drive-thru McDonald's will be opening on the site of the former Gipsy Moth pub before the end of the year, the fast food chain has confirmed.

Planning permission has now been granted for the pub in the Colonnades Leisure Park off Purley Way to be bulldozed and replaced with a new two-storey building including a drive-through McDonald's.

A spokesman for McDonald's said: “We can confirm that planning permission for a McDonald’s drive-thru restaurant has been granted at the former Gipsy Moth site in Croydon, and we are hoping to be on site by the end of the year.”

An artist's CGI impression of the proposed building (Image: Mountford Piggott)

There is already a McDonald's restaurant at the leisure park, but a planning statement submitted for the proposal states that the fast food chain has "a specific need… for new premises, which importantly provides a drive-thru facility”.

The planning statement also says it is expected the existing McDonald's at the Colonnades would be closed.